SCoIoT: Swarm-Computations for the Internet of Things

Abstract

Nowadays, most network systems are based on fixed and reliable infrastructure, but with Internet of Things (IoT), smart home and smart city systems are used more and more in mobile scenarios and vehicles become connected. Often low power mobile devices are supported by cloud computing capabilities. However, infrastructure may not be available everywhere, where mobile devices are used and local information is often only required locally, thus do not need to be uploaded into the cloud. SCoIoT is based on novel Information Centric Networking communication pattern and is designed to support cooperative computations without requiring new infrastructure or even in absence of infrastructure due to the device to device communication pattern. Thereby, nodes voluntarily participate in computations and help to spread the computation to enable further nodes to participate in the computation and to share the results. SCoIoT utilizes Append-only-Log technology for synchronization and verification of requests and results.